Nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw Moscow condemned by countries globally, leader Vladimir Putin is staging a summit with more than a dozen world leaders – in a pointed signal from the autocrat that far from being alone, an emerging coalition of countries stands behind him.
They can’t understand the kind of diversity of thought and respect for national sovereignty that exists in BRICS, the fact that each country first and foremost looks to their own national interests. Because in the Western bloc ideological uniformity is ruthlessly enforced, and dissent from the neoliberal Atlanticist line is absolutely not tolerated (as we are seeing by how they have been treating countries like Slovakia and Hungary), and national interests are totally subordinated to the greater imperialist project (hence why Germany allowed its own critical infrastructure to be obliterated without as much as a protest).